Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was not on the ballot in the Michigan governor’s race, but her legacy loomed over the campaign in her home state, which has the country’s highest concentration of for-profit charter schools.
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Associated Press on December 6, 2018 • Updated on December 6, 2018 at 10:45 am

Associated Press Posted on December 6, 2018 • Updated on December 6, 2018 at 10:45 am

More than 75 years after nearly 2,400 members of the U.S. military were killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, some who died on Dec. 7, 1941, are finally being laid to rest in cemeteries across the United States.
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“The world became a better place because George Bush occupied the White House for four years,” said Bush’s former secretary of state and confidant for decades, James Baker, who concluded his remarks fighting back tears.
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The nation’s most exclusive fraternity — the presidents club — assembled today to mourn George H.W. Bush, putting on public display its uneasy relationship with the current occupant of the Oval Office.
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The father of a boy who was killed in the 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut has filed another defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorists who accused him of being an actor.
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The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland plan to file subpoenas seeking records from the Trump Organization, the IRS and other entities in their lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of profiting off the presidency.
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The report recommended that the Postal Service develop a new pricing model that would remove current price caps and charge market-based prices for both mail and packages that were not deemed to be “essential postal services.”
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The Trump administration is celebrating the 90-day truce it reached in its trade war with China as a significant breakthrough despite scant details, a hazy timetable and widespread skepticism that Beijing will yield to U.S. demands anytime soon.
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New York Times on December 3, 2018 • Updated on December 3, 2018 at 4:48 pm

New York Times Posted on December 3, 2018 • Updated on December 3, 2018 at 4:48 pm

If french fries come from potatoes, and potatoes are a vegetable, and vegetables are good for you, then what’s the harm in eating french fries? Plenty, say experts and nutritionists, including Eric Rimm, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, who called potatoes “starch bombs.”
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